BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - When Mike Carman scored off a funky bounce off the boards to give the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a two-goal lead in the second period Saturday night, they had to think luck was shining down on them.

It didn't take long for a cloud to roll in.

Stephane Da Costa scored his second goal of the game 11:07 into overtime to give the Binghamton Senators a 4-3 victory in Game 2 of a best-of-five first-round playoff series at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Game 3 of the series, which is tied at one game apiece, is set for Wednesday at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

"You'd like to think (luck is on your side), but that's hockey. No lead is safe, especially in the playoffs," Carman said. "You've got to play a full 60 minutes and do what you talk about before the game. We did that for most of the game, but most of the game is not the whole game."

On the game-winning goal, Binghamton's Mark Stone backhanded a puck into the crease from the left wing and it caromed to Da Costa near the top of the right faceoff circle. He waited a moment for a shooting lane to develop, then picked a corner.

"When it gets scrambly, sometimes you get a bounce offensively. Sometimes you get a block. Sometimes it misses the net," coach John Hynes said. "There's not a ton you can do when it's a complete busted, scrambly play, except get a save. It's going to go one way or the other."

The Penguins got off to a solid start, giving Binghamton problems on the forecheck and scoring a pair of even-strength goals in the first period.

First, Chuck Kobasew tipped in a Brian Dumoulin wrister from the top of the right faceoff circle to make it 1-0 at 4:51. Later, Carman took a pass from Adam Payerl behind the net and made a quick centering pass to Tom Kostopoulos for a one-timer from the right dot to make it 2-1 at 11:03.

Early in the second period, the Penguins got their lucky break. Kostopoulos sent a puck hard around the right boards into the corner, where it took a bad hop and kicked out at a 45-degree angle onto Carman's stick.

Goalie Andrew Hammond never saw the bad hop. He was looking for the puck in the wrong corner while Carman shot into an essentially empty net to make it 3-1 at 1:58.

"I think throughout the game, we were really putting the pressure on them and had them where we wanted them," Carman said.

Binghamton stayed in the game through two periods thanks to its power play, which went 2 for 3 in the game.

In the first period, a blocked shot skipped just past the stick of a sliding Andrew Ebbett to Chris Wideman, who scored from the center point to make it 1-1. In the second period, Da Costa scored on the rebound of a Stone shot off the end boards to cut the Penguins' lead to 3-2.

"We took some ill-advised penalties," Hynes said. "We had a lead and we took two penalties that really hurt the momentum of the game and gave them momentum and kept them around, kept them in it."

Having stayed close, all it took was one Penguins mistake for Binghamton to tie the score in the third period.

Stone forced a turnover on the forecheck along the left half-wall, skated to the center of the ice and blasted a slap shot past goalie Peter Mannino to make it 3-3 just 23 seconds in.

"You know coming in it's going to be really tight games," Hynes said. "It was what we expected coming in here and what we expect moving forward."

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